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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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